My list of Firefox extensions continues to grow, and since I’m pretty happy with the installed set, I thought I’d share the list. Here goes:
- Adblock — Filtering ads is pretty much mandatory functionality for me.
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater — Makes Adblock work if you don’t want to write the filtering rules yourself.
- ColorZilla — Adds an eye-dropper color tool for looking up RGB values of colors in a web page.
- del.icio.us — The bookmarklets worked fine, but the extension makes posting pages to del.icio.us even easier.
- Dom Inspector — Not incredible useful for debugging, but occasionally it helps.
- Download Statusbar — Moves download status to the status bar instead of a pop-up window.
- FireBug — The new kid on the block of web debugging tools. Great integration with the browser.
- Greasemonkey — Enables page rewriting. See userscripts.org for ideas.
- Performancing — In-browser blogging. Not as nice as MarsEdit, but handy for quick posts or posting from my linux box.
SessionSaver— I have a love/hate relationship with this extension. It’s great when it recovers a browser session after a crash, but it tends to load a strange set of pages when it happens.Tab X— Puts “close” buttons on each tab (ala Safari.) Makes life easier for me.- Tab Mix Plus — Extensive tab preferences and session recovery.
- Venkman JavaScript Debugger — Elaborate JavaScript debugging environment.
- Web Developer — A swiss-army-knife of developer tools.
I’m also running the GrApple (Classic Pro) theme.
The list of available Firefox Extensions grows so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up. I generally find out about new extensions from LifeHacker, but if you have one that you love, I’d like to hear about it!
ernest 4:42 am on February 14, 2006 Permalink |
Has somebody worked with Stylish….an awesome extension for firefox.
erik 8:53 am on February 14, 2006 Permalink |
I haven’t used Stylish, and it doesn’t seem to be in the offical Mozilla extensions site, but I found more info on it here: http://userstyles.org/stylish
Phil Wilson 7:33 pm on February 18, 2006 Permalink |
Rather than SessionSaver and TabX, you might be better off with TabMixPlus (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1122), apparently its session saving is more stable, and less leaky than SessionSaver’s.
erik 9:02 pm on February 18, 2006 Permalink |
Thanks Phil! I’ll definitely check it out.
Speaking of extensions, I’ve also added one called ‘tamperdata’ to my development machine: http://tamperdata.mozdev.org/ I’m not sure how useful it will be in practice, but the extension allows you to be “man-in-the-middle” and alter data as it comes in and out of the browser.
victor 5:35 pm on February 22, 2006 Permalink |
You forgot *the* most essential extension out there:
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/